Review: These two tracks first came out as a vinyl-only release at the tail end of 2019, and were getting mucho support from the likes of Danny Krivit and Kenny Dope until Covid came along and put the kibosh on the club scene for the next couple of years. So now, with the pandemic out of the way, they're back, with Dimitri From Paris giving us two new takes on the jazz-funk inspired 'Doing Our Own Thing' while Casbah 73 himself reworks 'To Be Free', apparently using a bunch of stems he'd forgotten about from the first time around. If organic, soulful disco and jazz-funk are your bag, this is a must.
Review: Oli Stewart dons his Casbah 73 guise again and returns to Lovemonk with a second EP of soul-flecked goodness. His style - a peculiar but highly attractive mix of deep house, classic soul, broken beat, jazz and wide-eyed Balearica - guarantees a selection of tracks that are far from predictable. Opener "If You're Leaving (Part 1 & 2)" is a great example, moving from shuffling, soul-flecked 4/4 shuffler to sparse broken beat bomb in under 7 minutes. Elsewhere, "All Night Long" turns a forgotten soul gem into an atmospheric chunk of baggy deepness, "Too Cool to be Careless" sounds like the results of a smoky, late night studio jam session, and "I Want A Lot" is a particularly tasty chunk of disco-soul/deep house fusion.
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